Results for Micro Focus

Borland is rolling out a an easy to use prepaid cloud-based load testing service, with an eye toward helping online retailers better prepare for spikes in holiday traffic and tractions. Borland’s prepaid Silk Performer CloudBurst testing services aim to let retailers do performance testing from anywhere at any time, without the need for expensive infrastructure.

Almost three-quarters of all government agencies say they expect to set aside budget in the next 6-24 months for mainframe modernization projects, according to a recent survey by Micro Focus. IDN looks at how mainframe spending is getting a priority as many government IT budgets remain flat or decline.

This month, Micro Focus shipped a remote option to cut time and expense of building or maintaining Micro Focus COBOL applications. Micro Focus Server Express RDO’s comes with an Eclipse IDE, and will support the entire edit-compile-debug cycle to allow Java, SOA and other non-COBOL devs to work on mainframe modernization projects.

Micro Focus is bringing COBOL to cloud computing with its newly-launched Enterprise Cloud Services. The initiative is designed to enable enterprises to save money and accelerate business modernization by moving their COBOL-based business processes and applications onto a cloud platform.